History of the Club

The name Ponies was first used by an inner city junior team in 1899 and later adopted by a local senior baseball team in 1905. Beginning with the St. Lawrence League Kingston Ponies team in 1920, Kingston Ponies has been the most popular name for local championship senior teams in amateur provincial level leagues from the Central Ontario Baseball League (COBL) in 1923, 1926, 1931 and 1932, the province wide Ontario Baseball Association (OBA) where they have been Senior A champions in 1935, 1967, 1973 and 1993, Senior B champions in 1980, 1984 and 1992 and Senior C champions in 1990. They have been champions in the Canada/ New York League in 2000, the Eastern Ontario Baseball Association in 2001 and finalists in the National Capital Baseball League ( NCBL) in 2009. In 1973, the Kingston Ponies represented Ontario at the Canadian Senior Baseball Championship Tournament.

From 1946 to 1952, Megaffin Stadium(now known as Megaffin Park) was the home of the professional Class “C” Border League Kingston Ponies in what is often referred to as the ‘Golden Years” of Kingston baseball when several thousand people attended Ponies’ home games.

Although there were even years when teams like the 1947 OBA Juvenile A champions and the 1971 OBA Midget A champions represented the city as the Kingston Ponies, the name has been largely associated with senior level amateur teams. At least eleven members of the Kingston Sports Hall of Fame as well as one current major league manager were once Kingston Ponies.

Over the years, the Ponies have been sponsored by a a combination of primary sponsor (Thomson, Jemmett Volelzang Ins. Co. and Kingston Loyalist Farms the longest and most recent), sponsors of signs on the outfield fences, canteen and memorabilia sales and player registration fees.

The Kingston Ponies were incorporated as a corporation under the name the Kingston Baseball Club Inc. in 1992 with Kenneth Matthews, Wayne Cleary, Kenneth Diamond, Millen Casford, Terrence Leonard, Charles Pester, and Michael Postovit as its first directors.

Kingston Baseball Club Inc.

List of Officers